Mathieu Kérékou

Confronted by mass protests against his one-party regime in 1989 the then president Matthieu Kérékou consented to a peaceful transition to multi-party politics gracefully accepting defeat at the ballot box...

General (retired) Amoussou has been Armed Forces Chief of Staff and Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Côte d'Ivoire and is a brother of the former heir-apparent to the late President Mathieu Kérékou PSD leader Bruno Amoussou (AC Vol 43 No 24 The old order please)...

They could starve the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) forcing the appointment just before the scheduled elections of a new chairman who decides that a free vote would be impossible under those conditions - a tactic tried unsuccessfully by Benin's reluctantly outgoing President Matthieu Kérékou last year...